User:BengaliHindu/Suhasini Das

Suhasini Das (সুহাসিনী দাস) (August 1915 - 30 May 2009) was an Indian freedom fighter and social worker who participated in the Non-Cooperation and Quit Indian movements and actively took part in the rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of the Noakhali genocide. After the Partition of India, she took up Pakistani citizenship and later Bangladesh.

Early life
Das was born in the month of August, 1915 in a business family of Jagannathpur village under Sunamganj police station in the district of Sylhet. She was born the third of four children and first of two daughters to Pyari Mohan Ray and Shobha Ray. She spent a major part of her childhood at her maternal uncle's house. At that time there was no scope for female education in the village. When she was six, the first female primary school was established by Hriday Chowdhury and Bipin Chowdhury. At the age of sixteen she was married to Kumud Chandra Das, the third son of a respected and well to do businessman named Kotichand Das, from Jamtala in Sylhet. She became a widow at the age of 20, with her only daughter Neelima only one and a half years old.